Setting Up a Tomb

In addition to basements, you can build tombs to give your Sims (or others online) new challenges. Tomb construction requires the use of cheats, and you can’t make any quests associated with your tomb, but it is a spot for treasure. Or, if you want to cheat outright, you can just make a one-room “tomb” as a giant treasure spot to quickly gather relic collections. Regardless, this section will show you how to build a simple tomb.

Okay, before we go any further, as usual, we’re going to not try to say what makes a “good” or “bad” tomb here. If you make a tomb to share, it can be as hard or easy as you wish, decorated however you want, and there’s no real way to quantify quality of your work. We won’t say that our way is the “best” way to make a tomb or anything, but our advice on layout is somewhat general and should at least be considered as you make yours.

First things first: you can only make a tomb in a foreign country. That may sound obvious, but still… no looting and getting tons of relics across the street. However, you can set up object links (explained in the next subsection) in your domestic home. You could, for example, force people to push a switch to even get into your house. It doesn’t stop the magic teleporting repoman or anything, but it might be neat to make a little hidden room of your house.

For now, we need to travel abroad. To go to a different country, go to Edit Town, then select any country icon from the top-left corner. I’m picking Egypt for this example. Next, find a vacant lot; keep in mind the lot size, because you’ll be constrained by it. We’re going with a grassy lot on the Nile, located at 75 South Riverway. After clicking the icon, I choose the button that swaps lot type. Then, I change the lot to a commercial lot, with the dropdown box set on “Landmark Tomb.” I confirm it, then go into the lot in Build/Buy Mode.

Now, tombs can be above or below ground, or both, just like any normal lot. Because this is a very, very simple one, I’m going to just stick with some basic stuff on the surface and not worry too much about landscaping. I’ll touch it up a bit before I upload it to the Sims Exchange for your downloading pleasure, but really, if you’re skilled enough to be building tombs, chances are you already know about landscaping and we won’t have to go over it. Oh, except for this: as we mentioned in the Building Basements section, the ground will have to be flat in order to accommodate any extensive basements.

Now we go into the lot, and we have to activate two cheats to get anything accomplished. I’ll mention the point of the cheats in a second, but the sooner we enter them, the better. Press CTRL + Shift + C to bring up the cheat console, then type the following cheat:

testingCheatsEnabled on

If you did it right, the cheat console will close itself and it won’t look like anything actually happened. If the cheat console reports “Unknown command,” you probably just misspelled something. Note that the only space in that is between “cheats” and “on”; “testingCheatsEnabled” is all one word.

Once testing cheats are active, hit CTRL + Shift + C to bring up the cheat console again, then type:

buyDebug on

Again, after hitting Enter, if you typed it right, then you’ll have no visual indication that anything actually happened other than the cheat console disappearing.

Okay, let’s roll up our sleeves… we’re ready to do some tomb building.